Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMEPOWER Enterprise Servers
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Table 6: Competitive Comparison: PRIMEPOWER 2500/1500
PRIMEPOWER
2500-128
PRIMEPOWER
1500
HP Superdome
64
IBM p690
Sun F15K
Maximum
Number of
Processors
Supported
64 or 128
32
64
32
72 or 106 (1)
Maximum
Memory
256GB (64-
way)-512GB
(128-way)
128GB
256GB
256GB
576GB
Maximum
Interconnect
Bandwidth
133 GB/second
34.6 GB/second
64 GB/second
205 GB/second
172 GB/second
Maximum I/O
Slots
160 (64-way) or
320 PCI (128-
way)
72 PCI
192 PCI
120 PCI
72 PCI
Maximum I/O
Bandwidth
64GB/s (64-
way) or 128
GB/second
(128-way)
Information not
available
32GB/second
16GB/second
21.6GB/second
System Software
Operating
System
Sun Solaris 8 or
9
Sun Solaris 8 or
9
HP-UX 11i
IBM AIX 5L
Sun Solaris 8 or
9
Type of
Partitioning
Supported
Hard
Hard
Hard (nPars);
soft (vPars)
Logical
Hard
Maximum
Number of
Partitions
Supported
15
15
16 (hard); 64
(soft)
32
18
Partition
Granularity
4 processors
2 processors
4 processors
(hard); 1
processor (soft)
1 processor
4 processors
Dynamic
Reconfiguration
of Partitions
Yes
Yes
Hard—no;
soft—yes
Yes (AIX 5.2
and above)
Yes
Workload
Management
Software
Included
Yes (Solaris 9
and ARMTech
Share
Enterprise)
Yes (Solaris 9
and ARMTech
Share
Enterprise)
No (2)
Yes
Yes (Solaris 9)